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Veteran politician Sir Cyril Smith has died aged 82.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is selling his constituency home and is planning to honour his pledge not to pocket any profit he makes from the sale, his spokesman has confirmed.

A former member of MI6 who tried to sell secrets for £2 million has been sentenced to 12 months in jail.

UK Independence Party MEP Nigel Farage has confirmed he is standing for the party's leadership.

Britain's building industry is facing a bleak future after construction orders suffered a dramatic 14% fall between April and June.

Defence Secretary Liam Fox promised "closer co-operation" with the French as military budgets face being squeezed on both sides of the Channel.

Crime could rise if hundreds of police jobs are axed because of the Government's budget cuts, a chief constable has said.

Union leaders have warned that plans by a county council to axe 1,500 jobs over the next three years because of cuts in Government funds will pile "misery" into a recession-hit region.

A mother has appeared in court charged with murdering her two-year-old son.

Cheryl Cole's four-year marriage to footballer husband Ashley has ended on the grounds of his admitted unreasonable behaviour.

Police forces would face "Armageddon" if ministers imposed funding cuts as high as 40%, a chief constable has said.

Two men had a lucky escape after their light aircraft ditched in the sea, coastguards said.

A minimum price for alcohol of 45p a unit would save Scotland more than £700 million in 10 years, Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Crucial talks aimed at averting strikes by thousands of London Underground workers in a row over jobs got under way, with union leaders calling for the cuts to be scrapped.

The parents of suspected honour killing victim Shafilea Ahmed have been re-arrested in connection with her murder.

Royal Bank of Scotland is axing another 3,500 jobs under plans to more than halve the bank's administration centres across the UK.

A gunman shot dead by police after he took hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in the United States said he hated its television shows because they promoted population growth and environmental destruction.

Economists are divided over the future direction of the housing market as Nationwide said prices fell for the second consecutive month during August.

SCOTLAND'S beleaguered financial sector suffered another body blow yesterday as Standard Life announced plans to axe 500 workers.

SCOTLAND will become a soft target for illegal immigrants after police patrols were cut at one of the country's busiest ports, a top officer has warned.